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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He was doing a little minuet and he starts finding out things about his body.
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In the minuet the viola leads both violins.
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Is he merely to proffer his hand and lead her into a stately minuet ?
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The point at which a minuet is no longer a minuet, but becomes a waltz or scherzo, is ultimately indefinable.
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The same is true for the 3/4 minuets of Haydn and Mozart.
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Throughout history, otherwise unmarked minuets have been written in a number of time signatures, including 3/4, 6/8 and 3/8.